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	<title>Mayo Wynne Baxter &#187; David Gordon</title>
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		<title>Ask our Experts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commercial Property]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business tenants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[landlord and Tenant Act 1954]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lease agreements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lease on retail premises]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[security of tenure]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Q.  I have agreed to take a 5 year lease on some retail premises and the Landlord has indicated that the lease “will exclude the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954”.  What does this mean? Under the 1954 Act, subject to a few exceptions, if you are a business tenant then, at the end of the... <a class="readmore" href="http://www.mayowynnebaxter.co.uk/blog/ask-our-experts-5/">Read the rest of this post (No Comments)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Benefits of becoming a “Limited Liability Partnership”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[define limited liability partnership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[what are the benefits of a limited liability partnership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am often asked by clients what the advantages are to becoming a “Limited Liability Partnership” rather than remaining in a normal partnership. As a straightforward partnership, of say two partners, each partner is liable in full for all the debts and liabilities of the partnership.  If things go badly wrong and one partner just... <a class="readmore" href="http://www.mayowynnebaxter.co.uk/blog/benefits-of-becoming-a-%e2%80%9climited-liability-partnership%e2%80%9d/">Read the rest of this post (No Comments)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>I’m a Hotelier, Get me out of here !!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leisure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hotelier legal advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hoteliers in East Sussex]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laws around hotels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laws for the leisure industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For most hoteliers the last couple of years have been more than a struggle.  Indeed for some, including a number of high profile operators and suppliers, the pressures on the sector have proved too much and they have gone to the wall. For those that have survived, particularly in the “independent” sector, the combined effects... <a class="readmore" href="http://www.mayowynnebaxter.co.uk/blog/i%e2%80%99m-a-hotelier-get-me-out-of-here/">Read the rest of this post (No Comments)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>OFT gets tough on debit and credit card charges</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Office of fair trading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel industry law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel lawyers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel sector law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many in the travel industry will have seen the announcement last week that the Office of Fair Trading (“OFT”) have come out in favour of a complaint that hidden or excessive credit and debit card fees were unfair.  Whilst this is likely to be of immediate interest to those in the travel sector, I suspect... <a class="readmore" href="http://www.mayowynnebaxter.co.uk/blog/oft-gets-tough-on-debit-and-credit-card-charges/">Read the rest of this post (No Comments)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>HOTELIERS – be careful what you are signing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 09:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leisure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contracts for hotels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contracts for law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laws applying to hotels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laws for hoteliers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As a Director of a Hotel Company, I am often asked to put on my solicitor’s hat and advise on various contracts that the general managers want to sign or, worse, signed some years ago and which they now want to get out of. In the dim distant past, hotels operated with a leather-bound reservations... <a class="readmore" href="http://www.mayowynnebaxter.co.uk/blog/hoteliers-%e2%80%93-careful-signing/">Read the rest of this post (No Comments)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ask our experts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 13:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business law solicitors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[define limited liability partnership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[what are the benefits of a limited liability partnership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[what is a limited liability partnership?]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mayowynnebaxter.co.uk/blog/?p=697</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am in a business partnership with 3 others partners and one has mentioned that we might like to consider becoming a “Limited Liability Partnership”.  What are the advantages? As a straightforward partnership, each of you are liable in full for all the debts and liabilities of the partnership.  If things go badly wrong and,... <a class="readmore" href="http://www.mayowynnebaxter.co.uk/blog/experts/">Read the rest of this post (No Comments)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>How secure are your travel systems?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 08:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data protection]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There was a time when stories about computer hacking were limited to Hollywood tales of young teenagers, sitting in their bedrooms late at night, quietly hacking into the Pentagon’s computer systems whilst the parents sat downstairs watching TV.  However computer hacking is a now world-wide billion dollar business and all businesses face the ever-present threat... <a class="readmore" href="http://www.mayowynnebaxter.co.uk/blog/secure-travel-systems/">Read the rest of this post (No Comments)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Bribery Act 2010 in force yet?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bribery Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The short answer is “no” but it’s coming.  The existing law on bribery is based on statutes dating back to the 19th Century and, having waited over 100 years for reform, it appears that we are going to have to wait a little longer. Although the Bribery Act 2010 was passed in the last few... <a class="readmore" href="http://www.mayowynnebaxter.co.uk/blog/is-bribery-act-2010-in-force/">Read the rest of this post (No Comments)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>£385,000 FINE IN FIRST CORPORATE MANSLAUGHTER PROSECUTION</title>
		<link>http://www.mayowynnebaxter.co.uk/blog/385000-fine-corporate-manslaughter-prosecution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 21:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate manslaughter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 (the “Act”) came into force in April 2008 but it has taken nearly three years for the first prosecution to come to trial and this has resulted in a very substantial fine being imposed on the Defendant.  On 15 February 2011, a jury at Winchester Crown Court... <a class="readmore" href="http://www.mayowynnebaxter.co.uk/blog/385000-fine-corporate-manslaughter-prosecution/">Read the rest of this post (1 Comment)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ask the Expert</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Gordon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contracts between shareholders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shareholders agreement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[what is a shareholders agreement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[why should I have a shareholders agreement]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Q.  My business partner and I have run a small business through a limited company for the last four years.   We each own 50% of the shares and get on very well.  My business partner has said that we should have a “shareholders’ agreement”. What is a shareholders’ agreement and why do we need one?... <a class="readmore" href="http://www.mayowynnebaxter.co.uk/blog/expert-2/">Read the rest of this post (No Comments)</a>]]></description>
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